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Some of the world’s top museum curators, art dealers and auctioneers should be
squirming this week. That is if they have read a brilliant new piece of
research published in the racily named British Journal of Criminology
by two Glasgow University academics. The title of the paper, Temple
Looting in Cambodia, accurately reflects the subject matter. Yet it
scarcely does justice to the gripping details of this murky underworld
uncovered by two researchers, Simon Mackenzie and Tess Davis, who travelled
1,500 miles through Cambodia and interviewed many of those who had seen
firsthand, or were actively involved in, the looting